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Granville Bates

Granville Bates

Granville Bates (January 7, 1882 - July 8, 1940) was an American actor.

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Movies Starring Granville Bates (76)

Men Against the Sky (1940)

A draftswoman, the sister of an aging, alcoholic pilot, secretly uses her brother's ideas to solve design problems for an experimental military plane in an attempt to save the company and salvage her brother's reputation. ...

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Flowing Gold (1940)

In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and the misfortunes of a small oil company that hires him as a roughneck. ...

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Private Affairs (1940)

A girl decides to consult her natural father, whom she's never seen, for advice on her mixed-up love life. ...

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Women in Hiding (1940)

In this Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young woman wants to save her baby, but is afraid of telling her parents and has no money to pay the hospital costs involved. She falls prey to a baby-for-sale racket with quack doctors performing their services. ...

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The Mortal Storm (1940)

The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. After the Nazis come to power, the family is divided and Martin Breitner, a family friend, is caught up in the turmoil. ...

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Brother Orchid (1940)

When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk. ...

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My Favorite Wife (1940)

Years after she was presumed dead in a shipwreck, Ellen Arden returns home to the surprise of her husband recently remarrying. But he too gets a shock when he learns that Ellen spent her time alone on an island with another man. ...

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Millionaire Playboy (1940)

A young millionaire gets hiccups whenever he kisses a pretty woman. ...

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Brother Rat and a Baby (1940)

Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a football coach. ...

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Thou Shalt Not Kill (1939)

Rev. Chris Saunders becomes entangled in a moral and legal crisis when he hears a confession that could exonerate a young man wrongly convicted of murder. ...

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Of Mice and Men (1939)

An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America. ...

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Charlie McCarthy, Detective (1939)

Scotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter who is about to expose the editor's ties to the mob. When the editor is killed, both reporter Banning and mobster Tony Garcia are suspected. ...

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Our Neighbors - The Carters (1939)

A small town drugstore owner considers selling one of his children for money. ...

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Drunk Driving (1939)

In this Crime Does Not Pay series entry, John Jones is an up and coming businessman who drinks too much but denies he has a problem. One day he mixes drinking and driving, and the tragic consequences hit very close to home. ...

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Eternally Yours (1939)

Anita, engaged to solid Don Barnes, is swept off her feet by magician Arturo. Before you can say presto, she's his wife and stage assistant on a lengthy world tour. But Anita is annoyed by Arturo's constant flirtations, and his death-defying stunts give he ...

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Fast and Furious (1939)

Joel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel's pal, Mike Stevens is managing and preparing for their beauty pageant. Joel is made one of the judges plus he ha ...

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Pride of the Blue Grass (1939)

A young man is determined to turn his beloved racehorse, which is blind, into a champion. ...

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Espionage Agent (1939)

When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an espionage ring planning to destroy American industrial capability. ...

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Indianapolis Speedway (1939)

A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school. ...

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Naughty But Nice (1939)

Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset. When Don visits his black-sheep aunt in New York in order to find a buyer for his Rhapsody he is expose ...

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Sweepstakes Winner (1939)

A scatterbrained waitress invests her inheritance in a broken-down race horse and a sweepstakes ticket. ...

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Twelve Crowded Hours (1939)

An ace reporter with a girlfriend nails a numbers racketeer for murders. ...

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Blackwell's Island (1939)

A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster. ...

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The Great Man Votes (1939)

In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book to bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman, and his children, who know him for what he is and what he isn't, are his only admirers. Then, it is discov ...

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Next Time I Marry (1938)

Heiress Nancy Crocker Fleming will only receive her inheritance if she marries a "plain American." Her late father was afraid a foreign gigolo would steal her heart and money. So Nancy pays Tony Anthony, working on a WPA road project, to marry, then divorc ...

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The Shining Hour (1938)

A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it. ...

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Hard to Get (1938)

When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis, he makes her work out her bill by making beds. Resolving to get even, she pretends to have forgiven him, and sends him to her father to get financin ...

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Young Dr. Kildare (1938)

A medical school graduate takes an internship at a big city hospital, only to be subjected to a rigorous (and sometimes embarrassing) testing of his knowledge by the hospital's top dog, Dr. Leonard Gillespie. ...

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A Man to Remember (1938)

On the day of his funeral, a dedicated smalltown doctor is remembered by his neighbors and patients. ...

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Garden of the Moon (1938)

Don Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by performing at the Garden of the Moon, which is broadcast over the radio. The problem is that John Quinn is the club's ruthless, scheming manager who will do anything ...

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Youth Takes a Fling (1938)

McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor, finds it more difficult than he thought, and meets Helen Brown, who falls for him and uses her feminine wiles to try ...

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The Affairs of Annabel (1938)

Wonder Pictures has been striking out at the box office lately, causing the seedy PR man to involve main star Annabel in ever outrageous stunts for publicity. ...

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Mr. Chump (1938)

A naive young trumpet player inadvertently becomes involved with bank embezzlers. Comedy. ...

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Cowboy from Brooklyn (1938)

A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot. ...

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Romance on the Run (1938)

A (rather shady?) private detective specializing in recovering highly insured items gets involved in recovering a stolen necklace. In the process also gets involved with a secretary at the insurance company. ...

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Go Chase Yourself (1938)

When a bank is robbed, a not-so-bright teller is wrongly suspected of being part of the holdup team. Comedy. ...

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Mannequin (1938)

Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left behind. ...

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The Jury's Secret (1938)

A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial. ...

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Wells Fargo (1937)

In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in ...

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Under Suspicion (1937)

Jack Holt stars as Robert Bailey, a Henry Ford-like auto industrialist who decides to give his millions away to various charitable causes. Naturally, this arouses hostility amongst Bailey's friends, relatives and associates, some of whom have murder on the ...

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The Perfect Specimen (1937)

Raised in seclusion to be the epitome of mental, physical and moral perfection, Gerald Beresford Wicks is resigned to following his grandmother's wishes until a chance encounter with Mona Carter leads him into the outside world. ...

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The Boss Didn't Say Good Morning (1937)

Carey Wilson narrates this MGM Miniature short in which an average office worker suffers all week-end because his boss, who had a bad case of indigestion, didn't speak to him when he came to work on Friday and is convinced he is going to get fired. ...

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It Happened in Hollywood (1937)

A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound. ...

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Back in Circulation (1937)

Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy. When the Express gets a tip that a wealthy old man was poisoned and 'Timmy' spots the young widow in a nightclub only a day la ...

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They Won't Forget (1937)

A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate Decoration Day. Andrew Griffin, a small-time lawyer with political ambitions, sees the crime as his ticket to the Senate if he can find the right victim to finger for t ...

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Wings Over Honolulu (1937)

A Navy pilot gets involved in a romantic triangle while stationed in Hawaii. ...

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Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)

An elderly couple are forced to separate themselves from each other after their children refuse to take both into one house. ...

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Mountain Justice (1937)

Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prejudice and familial abuse. ...

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The Good Old Soak (1937)

A small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction. ...

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Let's Get Married (1937)

Political kingmaker Joe Quinn attempts to elevate his daughter's ambitious suitor, George Willoughby, into the the higher echelons of politics by getting him elected to Congress. His daughter, Paula Quinn, is not interested in her father's hand-picked choi ...

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Waikiki Wedding (1937)

Tony Marvin is a laid back but incredibly successful promoter and fair-haired boy for J. P. Todhunter's pineapple company located in beautiful Hawaii. He gets the company to sponsor a contest in which the winner gets a Hawaiian vacation and is obligated to ...

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Nancy Steele Is Missing! (1937)

After being in jail for seventeen years a crook is met by the girl he kidnapped as a baby. She now thinks he's her father. When he returns her to her real father there's a job and a reward, but an old prisonmate gets in the way. ...

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Green Light (1937)

A brilliant young surgeon takes the blame for a colleague when a botched surgery causes a patient's death and buries himself at a wilderness research facility. ...

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When's Your Birthday? (1937)

Some shady characters discover that a sad sack nightclub bus boy has the ability to predict outcomes of races and other events through astrology. ...

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The Great O'Malley (1937)

His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly affects an intractable Irish policeman (Pat O'Brien). ...

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Larceny on the Air (1937)

A doctor working with the Bureau of Pure Foods and Drugs, uses radio broadcasts to expose fraudulent patent medicines. ...

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Beloved Enemy (1936)

In 1921, British Lord Athleigh arrives in Dublin with his daughter, Helen, to engage in peace talks. As wanted Irish rebel leader Dennis Riordan is not recognized in public, he is able to move about freely and saves the Athleighs from an assassination atte ...

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The Plainsman (1936)

Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, and Buffalo Bill go up against Indians and a gunrunner. ...

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The Captain's Kid (1936)

In this children's adventure, the children of a small town are enthralled by the tales of the town drunk. ...

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Poppy (1936)

Carny con artist and snake-oil salesman Eustace McGargle tries to stay one step ahead of the sheriff but is completely devoted to his beloved daughter Poppy. ...

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Times Square Playboy (1936)

A stock broker's small-town best friend thinks the bride-to-be and her family are gold-diggers so he does everything he can to prevent the wedding. ...

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13 Hours by Air (1936)

Womanizer and airline pilot Jack Gordon must fly the world's fastest airliner from New York to California while dealing with dangerous jewel thieves on the run from the law. ...

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Important News (1936)

In this short film, a small-town newspaper editor struggles with what to publish on his paper's front page. ...

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The Music Goes 'Round (1936)

Harry Wallace (Harry Richman) is the star of a musical comedy who, while on a leave of absence from Broadway, encounters a troupe of untalented showboat players and takes them to New York City. Without letting them in on the joke, he then features them in ...

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Here Comes Trouble (1936)

Donovan unknowingly becomes tangled up with jewel thieves when Evelyn Howard gives him a cigarette lighter containing some hot rocks. ...

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Chatterbox (1936)

Teenage orphan Jenny Yates becomes starstruck when a revival of an old Victorian melodrama passes through her small New England town, to the disapproval of her stern grandfather, Uriah. Stowing away in the car of Philip Greene, a wealthy young man working ...

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I Live My Life (1935)

A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist. ...

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O'Shaughnessy's Boy (1935)

A circus wild animal trainer searches for the son who was taken away from him by a meddling relative years earlier. ...

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Alibi Racket (1935)

How police interrogation cracks the "airtight" alibi of a criminal. ...

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Pursuit (1935)

"Mitch" Mitchell is an aviator who has been hired to take a child in a guardianship suit out of California into Mexico. He is accompanied by Maxine Rush, the secretary of the head of a private-detective agency who has been hired to care for the kid until t ...

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Woman Wanted (1935)

Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony Baxter's car. Tony realizes Ann is innocent, so he vows to help her prove it, risking his neck in the process ...

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Woman in the Dark (1934)

A recently released prisoner lives alone in his cabin so that his bad temper won't get him back in any more trouble, but his peaceful existence is disrupted when a mysterious woman arrives. ...

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Midnight (1934)

Jury foreman Edward Weldon's questioning leads to the death sentence for Ethel Saxon. His daughter Stella claims to have killed her lover, the gangster Garboni, just as Saxon was to sit in the electric chair. ...

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The Wiser Sex (1932)

A young woman goes undercover to gather evidence to free her boyfriend, an attorney who has been framed for a murder he didn't commit. ...

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The Smiling Lieutenant (1931)

An amorous lieutenant is forced to marry a socially awkward princess, though he tries to keep his violin-playing girlfriend on the side. ...

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Honor Among Lovers (1931)

Jerry Stafford falls for his secretary, Julia Traynor, but instead she marries a shady character who causes trouble for both of them. ...

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